Release Date: 11/04/1997 Platform: Playstation 1 Developer: Psygnosis

You know, 1997 doesn’t seem so far away for some people, but popping this game back in my old PlayStation and seeing how some games age makes the time seem as long as it should. Sometimes longer than that even. Colony Wars was a favorite of people who had fallen in love with early space simulations. Wing commander was as close as most people thought they could come. The controls were extremely clunky and the action was more of the ‘waiting for things to happen’ sort (it was pretty cool for the time though). Then comes along Colony Wars. With controls that were far more smooth and fast married to action that would become truly hectic at the drop of a dime it became an almost overnight sensation – which was quite an achievement considering the type of game it was.  It was so good in fact that it quickly influenced a generation of new developers and was soon forgotten about almost completely as the Space Shooting genre took off. A clear case of doing a job too well and not having the foresight to run with the results, I’m afraid. Let’s see what you’ve missed, eh?!

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